you couldve gotten them to tight or left them to loose when the bearings were put in, or no grease. if you didnt mess the hub up to much and can just replace the bearings again make sure you replace the races (sp) also, alot of people dont , they just slap some new bearings in and ride. either way you choose to fix it the easiest way to set up a trailer hub is to tightened the hub all the way down to were the wheel wont spin then slowly start backing the nut off while turning the tire, as soon as the nut is backed off enuogh for the tire to turn freely STOP and put your cotter pin in the holes. now granted not everyone on here may agree and the bigger the hub your dealing with your going to start having torque specs but for a small boat trailer this procedure has always worked for me.
and by the way, to stop from having to check grease all the time go ahead and spend a little extra and get you some marine grade grease, this holds up alot longer than regular grease with the boat trailer being under water.
and one more thing, when you remove the old hub make sure to check the spindle out good to make sure the hub didnt cut any grooves or mess the spindle up any or you could have problems again in the future. the biggest problem that ive seen is the hub goes bad and starts shaking and the spindle gets grooved were the inner seal sits and if you just install another hub or just new bearings the new seal wont seal right and the first time you back into the water your hub gets water in it and you will wind up being right back were you are now.
hope this helps a little, i was bored and felt like talking
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